17 (A)For how great is his goodness, and how great his beauty!
    (B)Grain shall make the young men flourish,
    and new wine the young women.

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17 (A)Your eyes will behold the king in his beauty;
    (B)they will see a land that stretches afar.

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The Lord has sworn (A)by his right hand
    and by his mighty arm:
“I will not again give (B)your grain
    to be food for your enemies,
(C)and foreigners shall not drink your wine
    for which you have labored;
but (D)those who garner it shall eat it
    and praise the Lord,
and (E)those who gather it shall drink it
    in the courts of my sanctuary.”[a]

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  1. Isaiah 62:9 Or in my holy courts

12 saying with a loud voice,

(A)“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain,
to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might
and honor and glory and blessing!”

13 And I heard (B)every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying,

“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb
be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”

14 And the four living creatures (C)said, “Amen!” and the elders (D)fell down and worshiped.

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(A)Anyone who does not love does not know God, because (B)God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that (C)God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, (D)not that we have loved God (E)but that he loved us and sent his Son to be (F)the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

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But when (A)the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, (B)not because of works done by us in righteousness, but (C)according to his own mercy, by (D)the washing of regeneration and (E)renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he (F)poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that (G)being justified by his grace we might become (H)heirs (I)according to the hope of eternal life.

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18 And (A)do not get drunk with wine, for that is (B)debauchery, but (C)be filled with the Spirit, 19 addressing one another in (D)psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,

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18 may have strength to (A)comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and (B)height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ (C)that surpasses knowledge, that (D)you may be filled with all (E)the fullness of God.

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But[a] God, being (A)rich in mercy, (B)because of the great love with which he loved us, even (C)when we were dead in our trespasses, (D)made us alive together with Christ—(E)by grace you have been saved—

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  1. Ephesians 2:4 Or And

(A)In him we have (B)redemption (C)through his blood, (D)the forgiveness of our trespasses, (E)according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight

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In their case (A)the god of this world (B)has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing (C)the light of (D)the gospel of the glory of Christ, (E)who is the image of God. For what (F)we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with (G)ourselves as your servants[a] for Jesus' sake. For God, who said, (H)“Let light shine out of darkness,” (I)has shone in our hearts to give (J)the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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  1. 2 Corinthians 4:5 Or slaves (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface)

20 Now (A)the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, (B)grace abounded all the more,

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but (A)God shows his love for us in that (B)while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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For God So Loved the World

16 “For (A)God so loved (B)the world,[a] (C)that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not (D)perish but have eternal life.

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  1. John 3:16 Or For this is how God loved the world

14 And (A)the Word (B)became flesh and (C)dwelt among us, (D)and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son[a] from the Father, full of (E)grace and (F)truth.

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  1. John 1:14 Or only One, or unique One

13 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,
    (A)“when the plowman shall overtake the reaper
    and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed;
(B)the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
    and all the hills shall flow with it.
14 (C)I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,
    and (D)they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;
(E)they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,
    and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.

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11 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God,
    “when (A)I will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
    (B)but of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 (C)They shall wander from sea to sea,
    and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord,
    (D)but they shall not find it.

13 (E)“In that day the lovely virgins and the young men
    shall (F)faint for thirst.
14 Those who swear by (G)the Guilt of Samaria,
    and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’
and, ‘As (H)the Way of (I)Beersheba lives,’
    they shall fall, and never rise again.”

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18 “And in that day
(A)the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
    and the hills shall flow with milk,
and (B)all the streambeds of Judah
    shall flow with water;
(C)and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord
    and water the Valley of (D)Shittim.

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26 (A)“You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied,
    and praise the name of the Lord your God,
    who has dealt wondrously with you.
And my people (B)shall never again be put to shame.

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21 “And (A)in that day (B)I will answer, declares the Lord,
    I will answer the heavens,
    and they shall answer the earth,
22 and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,
    and they shall answer (C)Jezreel,[a]

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  1. Hosea 2:22 Jezreel means God will sow

12 They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion,
    (A)and they shall be radiant (B)over the goodness of the Lord,
(C)over the grain, the wine, and the oil,
    and over the young of the flock and the herd;
(D)their life shall be like a watered garden,
    (E)and they shall languish no more.

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13 Therefore thus says the Lord God:
“Behold, (A)my servants shall eat,
    but you shall be hungry;
behold, my servants shall drink,
    but you shall be thirsty;
behold, my servants shall rejoice,
    but you shall be put to shame;
14 behold, (B)my servants shall sing for gladness of heart,
    but you shall cry out for pain of heart
    and shall wail for breaking of spirit.

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Prayer for Mercy

15 (A)Look down from heaven and see,
    (B)from your holy and beautiful[a] habitation.
Where are (C)your zeal and your might?
    The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion
    are held back from me.

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  1. Isaiah 63:15 Or holy and glorious

The Lord's Mercy Remembered

I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord,
    the praises of the Lord,
according to all that the Lord has granted us,
    (A)and the great goodness to the house of Israel
that he has granted them according to his compassion,
    according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

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